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Great inventors of New York's Capital District / Timothy Starr.
- Title
- Great inventors of New York's Capital District / Timothy Starr.
- Author
- Starr, Timothy, 1971-
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | T39 .S925 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 160 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-158).
- Contents
- Introduction -- Working the land -- Peter Dederick: perpetual hay press -- James Covert: bolt harness snap -- Lewis Aspinwall: potato planters and diggers -- John Griswold: wire straightener -- George Westinghouse Sr.: agricultural machines -- Seth Wheeler: farm machinery and perforated paper -- Hauling the world -- Barnabas Langdon: horse-powered ferry -- Francis Cole: locomotive superheater -- Albert Pitkin: compound engine -- James McElroy: car heating systems -- George Westinghouse Jr.: railroad air brake -- Heating the world -- Eliphalet Nott: anthracite coal stove -- The Rathbone family: acorn stove -- Dennis Littlefield: Morning Glory and West Shore range stoves -- Philo Stewart: the Stewart stove -- Lighting the world -- Joseph Henry: electromagnet -- Charles Steinmetz: alternating current -- Ernst Alexanderson: high-frequency alternator -- William Coolidge: ductile tungsten -- William Emmet: electric turbines for warships -- Irving Langmuir: incandescent light bulbs -- Fire and water -- Lysander Button: hand and steam fire engines -- George Eddy: Mohawk hydrant and Eddy valve -- Henry Ludlow: straight-way slide-stop valve -- James Knibbs: the Knibbs run around -- Men of steel -- Horatio Spafford: iron and steel manufacture -- Henry Burden: horseshoe machine -- John Winslow: armor plating -- James Blessing: steam trap -- The collar city -- Sanford Cluett: preshrinking cotton fabrics -- Howard Kennedy: shirts and collars -- James Pine: collar and cuff machines -- Thomas Wiles: ironing machines -- The spindle city -- Timothy Bailey: power knitting loom -- George Campbell: winding bobbin machine -- Luke Kavanaugh: knitting burr -- Clark Tompkins: upright rotary knitting machine -- Arts and entertainment -- John Hyatt: celluloid for billiard balls -- James Gray: piano attachment -- Henry Miller: sound machines -- The Meneely family: bells and bell fixtures -- Arthur Knight: the Schenectady putter -- Appendix: Contents by town.
- ISBN
- 9781596291713
- 1596291710
- LCCN
- ^^2010018204
- OCLC
- 615339104
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library